
Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud
1968 · From Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud
Brown cut it in Los Angeles with thirty-odd young people from Watts and Compton shouting the answer back.
★ 7.7

Brown cut it in Los Angeles with thirty-odd young people from Watts and Compton shouting the answer back.

Mack Rice built it from a line Luther Ingram tossed off, and Pops and Mavis trade the sermon.

Rahki built it on the Isley Brothers' That Lady, and Lamar turned self-love into two Grammys.
Berry wrote it after watching an arrest in California, then cut it in Chicago with Johnnie Johnson and Willie Dixon.

Butler moved the crew to Brooklyn and cut it live over programmed drums, jazz-rap turned dusty and political.

Two Melvin Van Peebles samples anchor it, and the trio spends the whole track naming exactly what shaped them.